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Adele Dominates Grammy Awards Plus Winner List

02/13/2012
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Adele ran away with the Grammy Awards Sunday night, walking away with six awards and scoring the biggest honors of the night.

Adele took home the "Record of the Year," "Album of the Year" and "Song of the Year," Grammys and tied the record held by Beyonce for most Grammy Awards won by a female artist in a single year.

Adele took to the Grammy stage to perform "Rolling in the Deep," her first public performance since she underwent vocal surgery in November.

Adele took home Grammys in the following categories:

Record of the Year ("Rolling in the Deep")
Album of the Year ("21")
Song of the Year ("Rolling in the Deep")
Best Pop Solo Performance ("Someone Like You")
Best Pop Vocal Album ("21")
Best Short Form Music Video ("Rolling in the Deep")

Adele's sophomore album 21 was the biggest selling album of 2011 with over 18 million units sold worldwide.

The other big winners of the night were the Foo Fighters who won five Grammy's including Best Rock Album for Wasting Light and Best Rock Performance for "Walk."

Here is a list of the biggest winners

Record of the year: Adele � Rolling In The Deep

Album of the year: Adele � 21

Song of the year: Adele Adkins and Paul Epworth (songwriters) � Rolling In The Deep

New artist: Bon Iver

Pop solo performance: Adele � Someone Like You

Rock album: Foo Fighters � Wasting Light

Pop duo: Tony Bennett and Amy Winehouse � Body and Soul

Pop vocal album: Adele � 21

Pop instrumental album: Booker T Jones � The Road From Memphis

Dance recording: Skrillex � Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites

Dance/electronica album: Skrillex � Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites

Traditional pop vocal album: Tony Bennett & Various Artists � Duets II

Rock performance: Foo Fighters � Walk

Hard rock/metal performance: Foo Fighters � White Limo

Rock song: Foo Fighters (songwriters) � Walk

Alternative music album: Bon Iver � Bon Iver

R&B performance: Corinne Bailey Rae � Is This Love

Traditional R&B performance: Cee Lo Green & Melanie Fiona � Fool for You

R&B song: Cee Lo Green, Melanie Hallim, Jack Splash (songwriters) � Fool for You

Rap performance: Jay-Z� Otis

Rap/sung collaboration: Rihanna, Kid Cudi & Fergie � All of the Lights

Rap song: Jeff Bhasker, Stacy Ferguson, Malik Jones, Warren Trotter & Kanye West (songwriters) � All of the Lights

Country solo performance: Taylor Swift � Mean

Country duo/group performance: The Civil Wars � Barton Hollow

Country song: Taylor Swift (songwriter) � Mean

Country album: Lady Antebellum � Own The Night

New age album: Pat Metheny � What's It All About

Improvised jazz solo: Chick Corea � 500 Miles High

Jazz vocal album: Terri Lyne Carrington & Various Artists � The Mosaic Project

Jazz instrumental album: Corea, Clarke & White � Forever

Large jazz ensemble album: Christian McBride Big Band � The Good Feeling

Gospel/contemporary Christian music performance: Le'Andria Johnson � Jesus

Gospel song: Kirk Franklin (songwriter) � Hello Fear

Contemporary Christian music song: Laura Story (songwriter) � Blessings

Gospel album: Kirk Franklin � Hello Fear

Contemporary Christian music album: Chris Tomlin � And If Our God Is for Us�

Latin pop, rock or urban album: Mana � Drama y Luz

Regional Mexican or Tejano album: Pepe Aguilar � Bicentenario

Banda or Norteno album: Los Tigres Del Norte � Los Tigres Del Norte and Friends

Tropical Latin album: Cachao � The Last Mambo

Americana album: Levon Helm � Ramble at the Ryman

Bluegrass album: Alison Krauss & Union Station � Paper Airplane

Blues album: Tedeschi Trucks Band � Revelator

Folk album: The Civil Wars � Barton Hollow

Regional roots music album: Rebirth Brass Band � Rebirth of New Orleans

Reggae album: Stephen Marley � Revelation Pt. 1: The Root of Life

World music album: Tinariwen � Tassili

Children's album: Various Artists � All About Bullies ... Big and Small

Spoken word album: Betty White � If You Ask Me (And Of Course You Won't)

Comedy album: Louis CK � Hilarious

Musical theatre album: The Book of Mormon

Short-form music video: Adele � Rolling in the Deep

Long-form music video: Foo Fighters � Foo Fighters: Back and Forth

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